“It’s our time,” Solanke, who is set to join Liverpool from Chelsea on July 1, said. “Everyone will be rooting for us back home so hopefully we can make them proud.

“The determination we have is what drives us on. We know that even if we’re losing we can bring it back. The disappointment we had in the U19 Euros last year [losing in the semi-final], we know that feeling, so we want to go and win this time.

“There have been no special words from the manager, he’s just told us to focus on the next game, as he always does. There’s one more game we need to go and win and if we do it right we’ll be champions.

“I haven’t thought about being the top goalscorer, I’ve just been focusing on winning, but that would be a really good achievement for me and I would love to do that,” he added.

“After that win over Italy we’re all confident we can now go on and win on Sunday. We went 1-0 down early on but we kept going and to get the 3-1 win showed we are ready for anything.

“We were calm at half-time. We knew we had had a good amount of possession and that the game wasn’t over, despite being 1-0 down. We knew that if we carried on playing the way we were we would get chances.”

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Dominic Solanke believes England have what it takes to win Under-20 World Cup